Kamala Deploys Fugazi Defense As Trump Attacks Her Pro-They/Them Agenda

Kamala Harris and The New York Times deployed a fugazi defense in response to a Trump campaign ad that called out the vice president for her pro-they/them agenda.

The Trump campaign has been airing a 30-second campaign ad attacking Harris for her previous support of taxpayer-funded sex change surgeries for inmates, including illegal immigrants. Harris addressed the issue during her Fox News interview Wednesday with Bret Baier. (RELATED: Harris Campaign Spox Refuses To Walk Back Kamala Harris’ Support For Funding Trans Surgeries For Illegal Immigrants)

“I will follow the law, and it’s a law that Donald Trump actually followed,” Harris said, arguing that the Trump campaign’s ad was equivalent to “throwing stones when you’re living in a glass house.”

“Under Donald Trump’s administration, these surgeries were available on a medical necessity basis to people in the federal prison system.”

Harris and a New York Times article published later Wednesday evening (and written by self-described “hack” Glenn Thrush) both offered bogus defenses of her past support for taxpayer-funded sex changes while attempting to draw attention to “hormone therapy” that the Bureau of Prisons provided under former President Donald Trump. The New York Times story also buried several key details about the Trump administration’s policies.

First and foremost, the first sex change surgery never occurred under Trump. It did, eventually, but not until after Trump left office, in 2022. The New York Times tucked away that fact, and the fact that his bureau officials repeatedly denied the surgery request, four paragraphs into the story. No one just “signed off” on it, as The Telegraph stated in a headline: There was a legal battle. Harris certainly won’t mention that detail.

The New York Times also buried the Trump administration’s fight to reverse pro-transgender policies enacted under President Barack Obama, and a major policy decision of their own which “created a higher” barrier to the surgeries.

“The most significant change the Trump administration made in the treatment guidelines after it took over was the addition of the word ‘necessary,’ which created a higher but not insurmountable barrier to federally funded surgeries,” The New York Times reported.

Not until eleven paragraphs into the story did The Times mention Trump’s conservative appointees reversing the Obama-era policy that allowed biological males to use women’s bathrooms and cellblocks because they identified as female, or vice versa.

“Mr. Trump’s conservative appointees at the bureau did take some significant steps to reverse other policies related to transgender inmates,” the outlet reported. “Most notably, they rewrote the bureau’s procedural manual to remove a provision that would have assigned housing on the basis of a person’s gender identity rather than assigned sex at birth. Under the Obama-era guidance, transgender inmates had been allowed to use facilities, including bathrooms and cellblocks, that matched their self-identified gender,” the outlet reported.

“President Biden restored the Obama-era policy.”